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Key Terms:

Anthropiscience- era where humans are aware were causing our own demise

Intersubjectivity- when you interact with some things they are not Things anymore

Covert class characteristic of words which define their relation to other words, but is not

explicitly part of those words (noun/verb agreement; the !" #$%& vs' hic/haec#$%&

Life-world things that exist which bac)ground our experience impossible to *ob+ectively

describe because of our sub+ective situation

Synesthesia boundaries between bodies, beings, and senses brea) down and intermix

experiences of our senses overlap

Linuistic binomialism - how we understand motion based on form and formless attributes

Thouht!orld- microcosm that we carry to interpret the world

Characteristics of oral lanuae- additive, aggregately weighted, repetitive for the sa)e of

continuity, grounded in the social history of the group, sensuous (not abstract,

antagonistic, present in itself, succinct in meaning, physically spatial (more practical thancategorical

Intuitive anthropoloy- psychological reason why people have these meanings

Symbolic anthropoloy- super neat and coherent interpretation of culture

"thnoscientific- figure it out by wor)ing with the people themselves and learning from them

the inside out

Theodicy- explaining the paranormal in terms of the plausibility structure

Alienation- state of consciousness based on forgetting that the social world is a construction

#ad faith- internali.ation of the external world into consciousness

$omos- order of society

Anomy- no social order

Leitimation- the way that you have been told this is the rightful order

%etonymy - systematic symbolic uses of one thing in language when one means another

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"&perientialism- ob+ectivity must give up the goal of attaining absolute truth, but that doesnt

mean it cant find relative truth' 0ub+ectivity has to be based in experience, not entirely in

imagination

Commodity socially constructed exchange value overcomes use value

Commodity fetishism- unconscious social process of determining sub+ect/ob+ect status

'ift not about the item, but about the relationship created by exchanging the item sub+ects

interacting with sub+ects, sub+ect/ob+ect status isnt determined

()ntoloical conse*uences to e&chane+(1o)ensgard 233 when gifts are turned into

commodities, sub+ects are turned into ob+ects and they lose their status as persons

%ana energy and power and life force return of ancestors returns mana

Tapu behavior restrictions in the name of respect for the mana of the person/place

,lace-Thouht 40ociety4 means the interaction between worlds, not between humans;

5ndigenous theori.ation about cosmology lin)ed with locations

%ultinaturalism spiritual unity with *natural (bodily, corporeal, material particulars

$aturalism interaction between society and nature is natural

Idealism the ontological turn doesnt tell us anything about philosophy, except that anythingwe )now about reality might not be what someone else )nows as reality